The carrier is 40%-owned by United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) and plans to grow its current fleet of twenty-five ERJ-145s to sixty-one by the end of 2019. CommutAir operates exclusively for United, mostly out of Newark and Washington Dulles.

According to the ch-aviation capacity module, United also contracts ExpressJet Airlines to operate the Newark-Montreal route 2x daily. Sky Regional Airlines also operates the route 4x daily on behalf of Air Canada. The Canadian flag carrier is also United's sole competitor on the Washington Dulles-Montreal route - it subcontracts it to Jazz Air.

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The regional capacity provider said in a press release that the twenty E175LLs will deliver between May 2020 and the end of 2020. The aircraft will be owned and financed by Mesa Airlines and be covered under a 12-year CPA.

Mesa Airlines also extended the contract for the operation of forty-two E175s owned by United for another five years, through the end of 2024, with an option to extend it through 2027. A further eighteen E175s, which are owned by Mesa Airlines, are contracted through 2028.

The changes bring the total number of E175s to be operated by Mesa for United as of 2021 to 80 units.

The airline said that it will lease all twenty CRJ700s it currently operates for United "to another United Express carrier for a term of seven years"....

United will also end its 14x weekly service to Elmira/Corning, currently operated with ERJ-145s by CommutAir, on March 30, 2019. A day later, it will launch a new, also 14x weekly service from Washington Dulles, which will be operated by Air Wisconsin with CRJ-200s.

The carrier will further terminate its 20x weekly Newark-Manchester, NH service on March 30, replacing it with 21x weekly service from Washington Dulles. The...